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What movie have you watched lately

Angela said:
Wow, I'm glad to get a review from someone I trust. I was about to go to a movie theater for the first time in what seems like years, but now I won't. I'll wait until it's available at home.

What a disappointment. Do you know if David Chase was involved?

Please don't tell me "Wokedom" reared its ugly head. I can't stand it. They're EVERYWHERE! :)
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Unfortunately, there is some Wokeness going on. Nevertheless, considering it is a movie about Newark in the 1960s, they seem to have squandered this backdrop I think. Yeah, it is David Chase, they also had a lot of great actors. I don't think they did a bad job at their parts. But I think the story was weak.

You can see it on HBO Max.
 
It feels more like a mafia-movie by Spike Lee, than a Sopranos movie by David Chase. Despite the fact that he is the director.
 
Jovialis said:
Actually, this guy is the director; David Chase was just the producer:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851930/
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I figured they'd ruin it. The Golden Age of movies and tv is dead, killed and buried by political correctness. Comedy died long ago.

I can't tell you how many films and series I've started just to turn them off in disgust. Netflix keeps on bombarding me with e-mails to "come back", but I look at the shows, and not only are they "WOKE" to the max, and therefore completely unrealistic, but they're just marketed to late teens/early 20's viewers with a taste for violence and explicit sex, or they just want content that validates the angst of being a teenager or young adult.

Goodness knows I don't want anything bad to happen to western civilization, but sometimes I look at these people and think, you'd be the first to die, guys, if the you know what ever hits the fan, because you wouldn't know the first thing about reality or how to survive. I imagine them all like Eugene in the Walking Dead or the Mean Girls. :)

Thank God for all my books and my DVDs is all I can say.
 
I tend to stay away and not watch … (stereotypes), … though in my house, countless times they force me to watch scenes where the characters use phrases that I frequently use. Just the other day it was about, “cucuzza” , though most of the time the characters in the show do not pronounce the ending vowel, but I do (Different Dialect) … :) lol
 
Started watching the Calmar games. Nice series with quite an unusual plot. Hope that the ending will not disappoint me :)
 
I watched "The Exorcist" again. Still scared me, though not as much as the first time. I guess I've also become coarsened by the culture, so it's not as horrifying and disgusting to me as it was the first time around.
 
To justify still paying for Netflix, I watched "The Haunting of Hill House."

Still not as disturbing as the original.
 
This is when I start re-watching my Christmas favorites.

I almost always start with "The Homecoming". It's a Walton's movie. Yes, I know, but I loved the Waltons as a child. My mother and I never missed an episode, and this Christmas one with Patricia Neal as the mother is wonderful.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067209/
 
I watched a lot of movies lately, i can totally recommend you this ones:

I really enjoyed this movie, classical and one of the best


South Koreans are surprisingly very creative in cinema


It used to be on Netflix, i don't see it recently, quite good thriller.


True Detective Season 1, i bought the season 1 in Amazon Prime, one of my favorite TV Shows.


And this 1 season TV Show, i can only recommend. I have never imagined that one of the biggest FBI manhunt in the history of USA was hunting down a man which mailed bombs to university professors: geneticists, computer science professors blaming the industrialism for interrupting the balance of humans. Unabomber was a Luddite, a genius Mathemathician who went into the extremes.

 
Hawk said:
I watched a lot of movies lately, i can totally recommend you this ones:

I really enjoyed this movie, classical and one of the best


South Koreans are surprisingly very creative in cinema


It used to be on Netflix, i don't see it recently, quite good thriller.


True Detective Season 1, i bought the season 1 in Amazon Prime, one of my favorite TV Shows.


And this 1 season TV Show, i can only recommend. I have never imagined that one of the biggest FBI manhunt in the history of USA was hunting down a man which mailed bombs to university professors: geneticists, computer science professors blaming the industrialism for interrupting the balance of humans. Unabomber was a Luddite, a genius Mathemathician who went into the extremes.

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Time is a flat circle my friend. Def top5 TV shows of all time that season.

If you're looking for a good movie recommendation check out Layer Cake.
It's in my top 5 movies alongside Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and The Departed. Reccomended that one particularly cause it is less popular/lower chance you have watched it and rarely gets suggested.
 
Archetype0ne said:
Time is a flat circle my friend. Def top5 TV shows of all time that season.

If you're looking for a good movie recommendation check out Layer Cake.
It's in my top 5 movies alongside Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and The Departed. Reccomended that one particularly cause it is less popular/lower chance you have watched it and rarely gets suggested.
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I will look at Layer Cake, never heard of it before, i forgot to mention The Departed as well, weird enough i have skipped that movie for a long time but i finally watched, one of my favorites, Jack Nicholson is hilarious. I chuckled at the rat face scene.

 
I think I may have mentioned it elsewhere, but I watched "I Know This Much Is True" with Mark Ruffalo. It's based on the novel of the same name by Wally Lamb, and to some degree it's a bit autobiographical. I actually watched it twice because I think I partly misjudged it on first watching.

To say I found it riveting is an understatement. I felt throughout that I know this flawed yet wonderful man in my bones, my sinews, my very core. Most of that is the writing and the acting, although part of it is also probably that I've so intimately known men like him. It's just a tour de force, but be warned; it's not for the faint of heart. It's profoundly sad and tragic and can tear your heart out.
 
"Dopesick " (Rotten Tomatoes reported an 86% approval)A really interesting mini series with Michael Keaton, and Kaitlyn Dever. Some potential interesting crossovers with the current pandemic, in my humble opinion. After binge watching the Oxycontin - Big pharma-Political connections- tragedy, that took so many lives, and hurt families and relationships. Some observations "you don't chase a market, you create it" and "breakthrough pain" (triple vaccinated within 1 year, full PPE measures, and lockdowns, constant testing-still getting infected with Omicron "breakthrough"cases). Trying to pass Oxycontin for children.

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I started watching this one, i got lost into the complexity of time travel, infinite loop-cycle and family relationship (fathering) in this time-travel cycle. Otherwise, a nicely made German TV Show.

 
Hawk said:
I started watching this one, i got lost into the complexity of time travel, infinite loop-cycle and family relationship (fathering) in this time-travel cycle. Otherwise, a nicely made German TV Show.

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I watched it a while ago. It was indeed complex, and creepy, and ultimately depressing. It's hard to imagine anything worse than an infinite loop of horrendous events.
 
Totally loved that show. Gotta watch season 3, since at the time I finished s2 it was not out yet due to Covid... man how time flies.
 
Angela said:
I watched it a while ago. It was indeed complex, and creepy, and ultimately depressing. It's hard to imagine anything worse than an infinite loop of horrendous events.
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Honestly i still don't get it how some things are even theoretically possible, like split words, time travel. Because the show introduces travel not only in time, but also in different universe/world. So world-time travel.

IMO impossible, neverthless time-travel has been in human minds for quite a time, but that's my subjective opinion. Otherwise it is dark (as the title says) and creepy.
 
Just watched "The Last Duel", which Matt Damon and Ben Afleck wrote. It got about an 8 point something on Rotten Tomatoes, and I'd go with something like that.

I do wish Ben Affleck would stop acting, he's even worse than usual in this one, and Matt Damon is his usual stodgy self, physically and in terms of acting.

The standouts are Julie Comer playing the wife being pulled to pieces by the two men, and the incredible Adam Driver. Where have I been that I haven't seen his movies, and here he is in his late 30s, and Scorsese calling him perhaps the best actor of his generation? I think most of his movies are either for younger or more hip people than I. :) Regardless, I will now be on the hunt for all his movies. He's an incredible actor going by the evidence of this film, and it's impossible to tear one's eyes off him, at least impossible for me. Part of it is his physical frame, all 6'2" of it, and the grace with which he moves it, part of it is his beautiful voice, and perhaps part of it is the long hair balancing out his rather unconventional features for an actor, but whatever it is, it works.

For those more into fight scenes than sexuality, the duel is really brilliantly done. Ignore all the posturing by women's studies majors. Whatever Affleck and Damon intended, it's a character study and an action/history movie more than a lecture.

I'd love to know what really went on, because despite looking at this cause celebre of the Middle Ages three ways, I don't know, and I doubt anyone does.
 
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